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ESTAT
Overview
• Eurostat and its responsibilities
• SDMX and its importance's for statistical data distribution
• Towards INSPIRE
ESTATEurostat
What is Eurostat?
• The statistical office of the European Union
• Mission: to be the leading provider of high quality statistics on Europe.
• A General Directorate of the European Commission - Commissioner Algirdas Šemeta
• The central institution of the European Statistical System - a network of National Statistical Institutes from all EU and EFTA Countries - based in Luxembourg - ~ 800 staff
ESTATEurostat
Responsibilities of Eurostat
• Collect data from NSIs
• Harmonise methods, definitions & classifications
• Compile European aggregates – EU & Euro area
• Disseminate statistics
ESTATEurostat
Euro-indicators• Monthly
• Flash Inflation & Inflation (HICP)• Unemployment• External trade• Industrial production• Industrial producer prices• Construction output• Retail trade
• Quarterly• GDP (flash, 2nd) • Current account (1st, 2nd) • Employment• Labour Cost• Quarterly Sectoral Accounts (Households & Business)• Government debt• House price index
• Public Deficit & Debt – April & October
ESTATEurostat
Dissemination Chain
• Twice daily – Embargo times 11:00 and 23:00
• Full Data Dump (Google, Reuters, ….)
• Datasets in tsv (tab separated values), dft and sdmx format
• SDMX REST+SOAP services
ESTAT
Overview
• Eurostat and its responsibilities
• SDMX and its importance's for statistical data distribution
• Towards INSPIRE
ESTAT
Supported protocols & operations
Webservice Operation
SOAPSDMX 2.0
SOAPSDMX 2.1
RESTSDMX 2.1
To get the list of available data sets
QueryStructure GetDataflow dataflow
To get a data structure definition
QueryStructure GetDataStructure datastructure
To get the data GetGenericData GetGenericData data
ESTAT
Example
• Get data structure
• http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/SDMX/diss-web/rest/datastructure/ESTAT/DSD_hlth_cd_acdr
• Get data
• http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/SDMX/diss-web/rest/data/hlth_cd_acdr/..T.TOTAL.C33_C34.NL22/?startperiod=2009&endPeriod=2010
ESTAT
Details about usage for Jan 2014
• Bulk download (600GB)
• Data explorer, Database Extraction, TGM each ~ 500k,
• International Trade Extraction – 82k
• User sessions ~ 3M
• SDMX Rest/Soap ~ 7k
ESTAT
Overview
• Eurostat and its responsibilities
• SDMX and its importance's for statistical data distribution
• Towards INSPIRE
ESTAT
GISCO
• Eurostat service which promotes and stimulates the use of GIS within the European Statistical System and the Commission.
• It is responsible for the management and dissemination of the Geographical reference database of the Commission. (Maps, spatial analysis, geo-referencing of statistics, user support).
• GISCO is one of the leaders of the INSPIRE initiative, supporting the implementation of the directive for the establishment of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure.
ESTAT
Grants Merging Statistics and Geospatial Information
• Facilitate implementation of GI into Statistical process
• Addressed at National Statistical Institutes
• Spatial distribution of statistical phenomena and causes
• New statistical data/ improved data management
• Interactive statistical map applications
ESTAT
Conclusions
1. Wide variety of applications/datasets for in- and outside EC
2. Fostering collaboration between NSI and NMA –contributing to INSPIRE
3. providing MetaData Portal and reference data for EC / public
• INSPIRE/OGC and STATISTICS can learn from each other
• production with daily dissemination (STATS)
• interchangeable software products (GIS)
ESTAT
Overview
• Eurostat and its responsibilities
• SDMX and its importance's for statistical data distribution
• Towards INSPIRE